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Diamond is extremely strong due to the structure of its carbon atoms with covalent bonds.
It's been answered before, both correctly and incorrectly. Malleable means if you hit with a hammer it will change shape, like copper and other metals. "Change shape" doesn't mean shatter. Diamonds and other crystalline minerals are not malleable.
Diamonds are malleable, because, as stated by Newton's Laws of Motion, when a force acts on an object it will:
  • Speed up,
  • Slow down,
  • Change direction,
  • Or change shape

Therefore, if the diamonds cannot move, like if you hit two diamonds together - some would argue that if you put the diamond in the vice and hit it the vice would move instead - then they only effect that can happen is that the diamonds will change shape.

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